Zhen  Wen

Research Staff Member
IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
Email : zhenwen AT us.ibm.com
Web: www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~zhenwen
Tel: (914)784-6066,  Fax: (914)784-7455

 

Biographical Information:

I am currently a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.  My general research interests include intelligent user interface, visualization, machine learning, and multimedia systems with a current focus on context-sensitive visual analytics, information visualization. I got my BS degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1998, MS degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000, and PhD degree in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004.

·       Curriculum Vita (html)

Recent Professional Activities:

·        TPC Member, ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2009.

·        TPC Member, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2008.

·        TPC Member, ACM Multimedia 2007, 2007.

·        Organizing committee, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2006.

Selected Refereed Publications:

Book:

Journal & Book Chapter & Magazine:

  • [5] Zhen Wen, Michelle Zhou, "Evaluating the Use of Data Transformation for Information Visualization", in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, volume 14, number 6, page 1309-1316, 2008.
  • [4] Yang Wang, Lei Zhang, Zicheng Liu, Gang Hua, Zhen Wen, Zhengyou Zhang, Dimitris Samaras. Face Re-Lighting from a Single Image under Arbitrary Unknown Lighting Conditions. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, to appear.
  • [3] Pengyu Hong, Zhen Wen, Thomas Huang, "Speech Driven Face Animation",  in “in "MPEG-4 Facial Animation - The standard, implementations, and applications", John Wiley & Sons, 2002  
  • [2] Pengyu Hong, Zhen Wen, Thomas Huang, “Real-time speech driven expressive synthetic talking faces using neural networks", in IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks, April 2002.
  • [1] Pengyu Hong, Zhen Wen, Thomas Huang   “IFACE: A 3D Synthetic Talking Face",  in International Journal of Image and Graphics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 2001.

Conference & Workshop:

  • [8] Zhen Wen, Michelle Zhou, “An Optimization-based Approach to Dynamic Data Transformation for Smart Visualization”, in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), page 70-79, 2008. (Acceptance rate 15%)
  • [7] Yang Wang, Zicheng Liu, Gang Hua, Zhen Wen, Zhengyou Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, “Face Re-Lighting from a Single Image under Harsh Lighting Conditions”, in Proc. of CVPR 2007. (Acceptance rate: 28%)
  • [6] Zhen Wen, Michelle Zhou and Vikram Aggarwal, “Context-Aware, adaptive information retrieval for investigative tasks”, in Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), USA, 2007. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
  • [5] Xiaohui Gu, Zhen Wen, ChingYung Lin, and Philip S. Yu, “ViCo: an adaptive distributed video correlation system", in Proc. of ACM Multimedia, 2006. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
  • [4] Zhen Wen, Michelle Zhou and Vikram Aggarwal, “An Optimization-based Approach to Dynamic Visual Context Management", to appear in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis), USA, 2005. (Acceptance rate: 27%)
  • [3] Michelle Zhou, Zhen Wen and Vikram Aggarwal, "A Graph-Matching Approach to Dynamic Media Allocation in Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces", in Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) , (Best Paper Award),  page 114-121, San Diego, USA, 2005. (Acceptance rate: 28%)
  • [2] Zhen Wen, Thomas Huang, “Capturing Subtle Facial Motions in 3D Face Tracking", in Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), France, 2003. (Acceptance rate: 20%)
  • [1] Zhen Wen, Zicheng liu, Thomas Huang, "Face Relighting with Radiance Environment Maps", in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), vol. 2, page 158-165, USA, 2003. (Acceptance rate: 24%)

Thesis:

·        Zhen Wen, “Combining Shape and Texture for Facial Motion Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis”, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October, 2004.

Awards:

·        IBM Research Division Award, 2005.

·        Best paper award, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, San Diego, USA, 2005.

·        The Forth Place at the V. Dale Cozad Business Plan Competition for business plan on face animation, 2000-2001.